Daniel Wiessner

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said a drama and English teacher played a critical religious role at a North Carolina Catholic school that fired him because he is gay, barring him from pursuing a discrimination lawsuit.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit claiming that prison inmates in Baltimore County, Maryland, who sorted recyclables in a voluntary work program were the county's employees and should have been paid the minimum wage.

(Adds background in paragraphs 3, 5, 8-11) By Daniel Wiessner

Apple employees at a New Jersey retail store have voted against joining a union, potentially stifling momentum for a push to organize the tech giant's workforce nationwide. Workers at the store in Short Hills, New Jersey, voted 57-41 against joining the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union in an election that ended on Saturday, according to a tally from the National Labor Relations Board. It was the first union election at an Apple store since 2022, when workers at a pair of stores in Maryland and Oklahoma voted to unionize.

May 13 (Reuters) - The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has asked a federal judge to terminate key aspects of a Clinton-era settlement

A National Labor Relations Board administrative judge has opted not to delve into Starbucks' claims that the agency's structure is unconstitutional, while ruling that the coffee chain committed various labor law violations at a unionized New Orleans store.

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A group of Republican-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S.

May 14 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday ordered a cannabis dispensary operator to bargain with a union even though its workers voted

A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday seemed inclined to rule that Workday must face a novel proposed class action claiming that artificial intelligence software the company uses to screen out job applicants for other employers is discriminatory.

The Biden administration on Wednesday urged a U.S. appeals court to rule that Texas cannot keep a 1,000-foot-long floating barrier in the Rio Grande, one in a series of measures taken by the Republican-led state to deter illegal border crossings.